A major new investigation exposes how light-touch regulation on London's junior stock market encourages polluting activities in some of the world's most unstable regions, write CHLOE FARAND and MATT HOPE
How ‘light touch’ market regulation encourages exploitation of Africa’s natural resources Chloe Farand Mat Hope | 14th May 2018 News Africa Oil Companies Stock Market Oil in niger delta A major new …
Internal documents unearthed by Jelmer Mommers of De Correspondent show oil company Shell knew about the danger of burning fossil fuels for climate change as early as the 1980s. MAT HOPE from DeSmog.uk has the story
… Climate Files , a project of the Climate Investigations Center, show intense interest …
The mountaineers who come to conquer Everest mistake their achievement – in the quest to overcome nature’s ultimate natural obstacle, humans have already won
Everest in peace Eifion Rees | 1st June 2009 News Investigation Natural World Mount Everest Monutineering Mountainclimbing Travel investigates.jpg The mountaineers who come to conquer Everest mistake …
Eifion Rees talks to the Compassion in World Farming veteran and co-editor of The Meat Crisis - a shocking new book that exposes the range of environmental and health threats facing us if we don't kick our addiction to meat
Joyce D'Silva: 'Meat should carry a health warning' Eifion Rees | 30th September 2010 Comment Interviews Joyce D'Silva Compassion In World Farming CIWF Farming Animals Cows Meat Water Drought …
A web of lobbyists, politicians, and political funders continue to spread disinformation about climate change in the UK. MAT HOPE, the editor of DeSmog UK, today launches its new Climate Disinformation Database. Here he explains how the resource aims to better inform public debate.
New database maps web of disinformation plaguing UK climate policy Mat Hope | 11th December 2017 Comment Climate Change Climate Science Denial Climate Skepticism Nigel Lawson Global Warming Policy …
Tesco provoked an outcry by offering Clubcard members the opportunity to redeem points for a CT scan. Now, increasing numbers of scans in NHS and private hospitals are causing concerns that we are over-exposing ourselves to radiation
… accuracy also means further x-rays or other investigations may become unnecessary. So …
Consumers have been left confused by the latest study on the links between mobile phone use and brain cancer. Eifion Rees reports on the struggle to find answers
Do mobile phones really cause cancer? Eifion Rees | 7th June 2011 News Mobile Phones Health Cancer mobilephonegirl2.jpg Even if we're uncertain about their effects, we know enough to take precautions …
A new project at Bath University shows that building with straw is not just eco-friendly, but cheap, easily adaptable and fully recyclable at the end of its life
Using compressed straw as the ultimate eco building material Eifion Rees | 20th November 2009 Activism Energy Home Building Construction Straw Straw Bale Insulation Efficiency balehaus.jpg A new …
Inconsistent wind is no impediment to the generation of electricity by turbines, three separate reports have concluded, as well as showing that the National Grid is more than able to cope with increased investment in wind energy
… message Eifion Rees | 13th July 2009 News Investigations Food And Farming Energy Wind …
Former Prime Minister José María Aznar promoted Nigel Lawson’s climate science denial in Spain.
Nigel Lawson and climate denial in Spain Mat Hope Adolfo Moreno | 3rd July 2019 News Spain Climate Denial DeSmog Nigel Lawson image Former Prime Minister José María Aznar promoted Nigel Lawson’s …
A new report has revealed that a change in the way we manage agricultural land could help sequester a quarter of the world's carbon dioxide emissions every year
… 25 per cent Eifion Rees | 3rd July 2009 News Investigations Food And Farming Science And …
Shell, one of the world’s largest oil companies, has gained privileged access to the UN climate change negotiations while pushing the same unworkable solutions for almost 20 years, internal company documents reveal. MAT HOPE of DeSmog UK investigates
What Shell knew and how it once stalled international climate negotiations Mat Hope | 17th July 2018 News Shell Knew Climate Change Shell Climate Change Negotiations Unfccc Paris Climate Change …
The findings of a strategic environmental assessment open the way for an increase in the number of offshore wind farms, which could produce enough energy to power every household in the UK
… UK home Eifion Rees | 26th June 2009 News Investigations Energy Climate Change Science …
More sites may be added to the UNESCO List of World Heritage Sites in Danger this week, but how effective is this register of global hot spots, and what are the areas that truly deserve international protection?
… ourselves Eifion Rees | 25th June 2009 News Investigations News Climate Change UNESCO …
With rich, resource-poor nations increasingly outsourcing their food production to less developed nations, a new website aims to expose the extent of the agricultural land-grab epidemic
… new website Eifion Rees | 22nd June 2009 News Investigations Science And Technology Food And …
One of the Tufton Street groups, the Institute of Economic Affairs, recently hit headlines after undercover reporters filmed its director general appearing to suggest funders could get access to government ministers through the think tank, writes MAT HOPE
Video: Exposing the network pushing deregulation and climate science denial Mat Hope | 11th September 2018 News Clear On Climate 55 Tufton Street Institute Of Economic Affairs Global Warming Policy …
Irshad Mobarak, a self-taught naturalist and environmentalist from the Malaysian island of Langkawi says that development need not mean destruction
CASE STUDY: Keeping tourism in balance with nature Eifion Rees | 5th January 2010 Activism How To Make A Difference Eco Tourism Langkawi Malaysia JungaWalla Irshad Mobarak Deforestation Species …
Eifion Rees reports on the video journalists producing environmental and social justice films that influence public opinion - and consistently get closer to the issues than the mainstream media
… media groups Seek out campaigns, context and investigations that you're unlikely to find in …
With a new analysis showing UK wind farms operating at just 20 per cent of their capacity in 2010, the potential of wind power has been called into question. Eifion Rees examines the arguments from both sides
Wind industry and Decc urged to come clean on output of wind farms Eifion Rees | 4th May 2011 News Wind Energy Renewables turbine.jpg A lack of technical and economic data on wind farms is making it …
Worried by an eco backlash, the bottled water industry is waging a PR battle to turn the public back onto plastic bottled water
Bottled water industry wages PR battle against tap water movement Eifion Rees | 4th April 2012 News Bottle Water Plastic Tap Nestle News Focus Health Waste And Recycling water.jpg More than 2bn …
Friends of the Earth Scotland conducted an analysis of Scotland’s road pollution, and found 10 streets continued to breach European limits, writes MAT HOPE for DESMOG.UK
Exploring the local problems driving the UK's air pollution crisis Mat Hope | 25th July 2018 News Dundee Derry Londonderry Southampton Newport Air Pollution air-pollution-road-car-children.jpg …